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Knowles articulated the educational benefits to high school students: “These programs distort the high school experience by forcing both students and colleges to commit prematurely, based only upon the record at the end of the student’s junior year. Moreover, students who are admitted early receive what often appears to be a ‘free pass’ for their second semester, sadly encouraging them to disengage from their academic experience. I hope that our decision to eliminate early action will help to turn down the heat on admissions, allowing students, parents, and teachers...
...hope is that the very best applicants—the ones we seek most assiduously—will appreciate the principled stand we—along with Princeton and the University of Virginia—have taken and will resist the pressure to commit to a college before they are fully ready. Historically such outstanding students have exhibited a level of confidence, maturity, and thoughtfulness that separates them from others who may approach the college admissions process more from a game-theoretic point of view...
...blockmates and I worry about this a lot, probably because we all commit the same crimes. One thing we came up with is an idea about cultural taxonomy that splits everyone along one line: some people are geniuses and all the rest are critics. Geniuses do great things without trying to, while critics think and wonder and reflect, sorting out their function in relation to context/zeitgeist/the intellectual situation so that they can be sure that their projects are good/relevant/revelatory...
...Quincy House A in response to an individual wielding a knife and issuing threats. The man, Ronald Vick of Brighton. was placed under arrest when caught in Peabody Terrace, and was charged with four counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony. He was issued a trespass warning for all Harvard property.May 9:7:28 a.m.: HUPD dispatched officers to the Harvard Medical School’s garage to take note of property damage. An individual, while backing up their car, struck the overhead sprinkler system causing it to turn...
...they do have that option. According to Neufeld, none of the 201 exonerations have resulted in a guilty verdict after a retrial. Bob Keller, the district attorney in the case of Calvin Johnson, who served more than 15 years in a Georgia prison for a rape he didn't commit, did not prosecute Johnson again. "I applaud the efforts of the Innocence Project," Keller says. "If not for that project, Calvin would still be in jail, which would be an absolute travesty." Keller now works with the Georgia Innocence Project, trying to get legislation passed for all criminal cases...